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Attorneys to make final arguments in Rodney Reed's death row case statesman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from statesman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
BASTROP Prosecutors on Monday attempted to cast doubt on the reliability of new witness testimony in an evidence hearing for Rodney Reed, a man on death row who was convicted of murder in the 1996 slaying of Stacey Stites in Bastrop County. A psychologist testified for hours about how a person s memories are imperfect, and people can confidently say they remember something even if they re remembering it incorrectly. Texas prosecutors asked her to evaluate the reliability of certain types of memories, pulling from details offered in last week s witness testimony. When you spend a lot of time picturing something in your mind, it can seem very vivid. . False memories can be very vivid often much more vivid than true memories, because they’ve been thought on and elaborated so much, said Deborah Davis, a University of Nevada psychology professor who has researched the reliability of memory. ....
Rodney Reed prosecutors call on expert to discredit witness memories timesrecordnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesrecordnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Rodney Reed (pictured) presented four days of testimony in a Bastrop County courthouse in an attempt to establish his innocence of the murder of Stacy Stites, as activists, religious leaders, and members of Reed’s family rallied in support of his case. The hearing, which is expected to take two weeks, began on July 19, 2021, with Reed’s case for innocence. His lawyers presented evidence that Reed, who is Black, was having an affair with Stites, who is white; that Stites was actually murdered by her abusive fiancé, Jimmy Fennell; and that Fennell, who at that time was a police officer in Giddings, Texas, had framed Reed for the murder. Numerous witnesses testified that testified that they had seen Stites together with Reed on prior occasions, heard Fennell threaten to kill her if she cheated on him, and heard Fennell admit to the killing. Two forensics experts testified that Stites died hours earlier than the prosecution had claimed, at a time that Fennell had sa ....